Debconf 2021 – Planning meeting : August 9th
The next planning meeting for this years Debian Conference will take place on Monday 9th August @ 18:00 UTC (19:00 United Kingdom time UTC+1) on IRC.
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1 Debconf 2021 Website
1a Contact info
2 Mailing list sign up
3 OFTC IRC
4 Poster (work in progress)
5 Salsa Gitlab
TAGS
#Debian,#Conference,#Developer,#Planning,#Meeting
CONTACT
The Mailing list sign up page has a sign up form, however you can just send a message to the e-mail address given to request more information, you need to ask for replies to be cc'd to you.
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Debian 11 power manager
I am running Debian 11 with XFCE. It appears, that despite the power manager being set to blank the display after 20 minutes, this for me happens on my system after 1 minute ( I timed it).
This is not critical for me, just seems like unexpected behaviour. I am making this post to see if anyone else is having the same or similar issues.
I am using Debian 11 and the XFCE Desktop environment.
name -a
Linux Desktop 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-3 (2021-07-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Other system information (gained via hexchat)
Client: HexChat 2.14.3 • OS: Debian 11.0 • CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz (1.60GHz) • Memory: Physical: 3.7 GiB Total (2.3 GiB Free) Swap: 953.8 MiB Total (953.8 MiB Free) • Storage: 263.9 GB / 478.4 GB (214.5 GB Free) • VGA: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller @ Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller • Uptime: 32m 37s
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#Debian,#Bullseye,#XFCE,#PowerManager
Deban Conference meeting 2/8/2021
The next Debian conference meeting is Monday 2/8/2021. The agenda is below.
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#Debian,#Conference,#Planning,#Meeting
Torbay Trojans – 1/8/2021
Torbay Trojans are training today from 10 am to 13:00. Foxhole community centre, Bellfield Road, Paignton.
A chance for the team to regroup and refocus before their next game.
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#Football,#Trojans,#Training
Springboks v British & Irish Lions – 2nd Test
Date : 31/07/2021
Venue : Johannesburg, FNB Stadium
Time : 17h00 (BST)
#RugbyUnion,#British,#Irish,#Lions,#Tour,#SouthAfrica,#2021
Tor Project Employment Vacancies
I decided to share this as the Tor Project is still looking for people to help with the project. These are PAID opportunities even though there are plenty of Volunteer opportunities too.
Details of the latest vacancies can be found here
You can also follow the Tor project on Mastodon as well as other social media and communication platforms. Details are on their contact page.
Hope this helps
#Tor,#Project,#Privacy,#Employment,#Vacancies
Debconf 2021 – Planning meeting : August 2nd
The next planning meeting for this years Debian Conference will take place on Monday 2nd August @ 18:00 UTC (19:00 United Kingdom time UTC+1) on IRC.
LINKS
1 Debconf 2021 Website
1a Contact info
2 Mailing list sign up
3 OFTC IRC
4 Poster (work in progress)
5 Salsa Gitlab
TAGS
#Debian,#Conference,#Developer,#Planning,#Meeting
CONTACT
The Mailing list sign up page has a sign up form, however you can just send a message to the e-mail address given to request more information, you need to ask for replies to be cc'd to you.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Freedom ladder – From the Free Software Foundation 3.0
Introduction
The “freedom ladder” is a new method the FSF campaigns team has developed to help users get their first start in software freedom.
One problem with most guides introducing newcomers to GNU/Linux is that they stop them too soon on their “journey to freedom,” and end up suggesting that a partially nonfree setup is a desirable outcome. By contrast, our guides focus is to encourage users to not rest content with nonfree software, while at the same time recognizing that they have other pressures and obligations. We want to help them stay both motivated and determined in their gradual process to eliminate nonfree software from their lives.
Second meeting was excellent, really productive with lots of ideas being put forward
Third meeting is Thursday 29th July. 16:00 to 17:00 Eastern Time on IRC (chat) and will be looking at Understanding encryption / Mobile phone freedom.
This is going to be 21:00 UK time I think.
#FreeSoftwareFoundation,#Promotion,#Assstance,#Software
How to Hunt for Distant Worlds
Since the discovery of the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star in 1995, more than 4,000 exoplanets have been found. These widespread planetary systems confirm that our solar system is just one of many in our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of such systems provided intriguing insights, challenging our perspectives about how planetary systems form and evolve. But how do astronomers search for these exoplanets and what can we find out about them? Join Dr. Rickman as she describes the scientific hunt for these distant worlds.
The lecture starts at about 13:30 minutes in after all the news updates.
Host: Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute
Recorded live on Tuesday, June 1, 2021
More information: www.stsci.edu/public-lectures
Very interesting lecture, some of this has been talked about before however it is always good to listen to different explanations of the same topics. The upcoming JWST is hopefully going to open up a lot more discoveries.
The lecture makes reference to the discovery of the moons around Jupiter with the first telescope. Which really puts in to context how quickly things have moved on. First exoplanet was found in 1992, but only recently has the number found increased.
Links at the end to the zooniverse project, two of these projects are to do with searching for exo-planets so this gives citizens a chance to take part (and get cited) in real research.
#Space,#Science,#Telescope,#TheHuntForDistanceWorlds,#STSCI,#stsci
Debian 11 release
Debian [1] 11 is due for release on the 14th August 2021. More information on the website.
Information on release parties can be found below:-
If you want to celebrate it (and the conditions around you allow for
it), please consider attending a Debian release party, or hosting your
own! See [2] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyBullseye for more
information.
1 Debian
2 Release Parties